After covering the cage securely, she went to a nearby table, where a nearly spent incense stick stood in the incense burner.
It was only ordinary incense, but before using it, she had soaked it thoroughly in juice made from crushed Dream-Cleansing Grass.
Dream-Cleansing Grass posed no harm whatsoever to cultivators and was even mixed into rouge. For ordinary people, however, it had hallucinogenic effects. Prolonged use or contact would make them paranoid and deranged, stripping them of all reason.
As luck would have it, all these lovers of Jin Chengxin were ordinary people without any cultivation.
Xue Fuyao removed the nearly spent incense stick, then lit three fresh ones.
After finishing all this, Xue Fuyao left the house and found an inn to stay in.
It was only the ninth today. There were still more than ten days until the twenty-third-more than enough time.
Back in her room, Xue Fuyao began examining the things she had brought out of the Imperial Palace, one by one.
Since it belonged to the Xue Clan, she could rule out the things she had seized from the consorts.
Most likely, it had been hidden in the imperial study or the imperial treasury.
The imperial study housed all sorts of confidential documents, the Imperial Jade Seal, and the emperor's personal seal. The imperial treasury, meanwhile, had been passed down through generations of Xue Clan emperors. It contained property belonging solely to the emperor himself and could also be called his private treasury.
Xue Fuyao had long since burned the memorials and other confidential documents from the imperial study as firewood. She took out the remaining items one by one to examine them.
She inspected the Imperial Jade Seal especially carefully, but found nothing. It had simply been carved from a piece of high-quality jade;